U+123C "ሼ" Ethiopic Syllable Shee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+123C "ሼ" Ethiopic Syllable Shee is a glyph in the Ethiopic script, used for writing languages such as Amharic, Tigrinya, and Ge’ez, where it represents the syllabic sound "shee" (with a long vowel). It belongs to the Ethiopic block of Unicode and is derived from the Ge’ez abugida, a writing system where each character combines a consonant and a vowel. In typographic contexts, this character is typically rendered using an Ethiopic font, and it holds linguistic and cultural significance for communities in the Horn of Africa, particularly in liturgical and modern textual traditions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+123C |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Shee |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ሼ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ሼ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x88 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x123C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000123C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u123c |